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A Ceremony Unveiling the Portrait of THE HONORABLE DUNCAN L. HUNTER A Representative in Congress from the Fifty-Second District of January 3, 1981 - January 3, 2009 Elected to Ninety-Seventh Congress and Succeeding Congresses Chair of the Committee on Armed Services

PROCEEDINGS before the COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

U.S. House of Representatives September 15, 2009

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A Ceremony Unveiling the Portrait of THE HONORABLE DUNCAN L. HUNTER

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday, September 15, 2009

[ iii ] THE PORTRAIT The portrait of Mr. Hunter was rendered by artist Mark Martensen in oil on a stretched canvas. It measures 48 inches high by 36 inches wide and is framed in a 6-inch bronze/gold painted frame.

[iv] BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Congressman Duncan Hunter represented County in the House of Representatives for 28 years. He was first elected in 1980. A Vietnam veteran, he served in the 173rd Airborne and 75th Army Rangers. Hunter utilized the G.I. Bill to attend Western State Univer- sity Law School in San Diego and, while completing his degree, he sup- plemented his income by working in farming and construction. After graduating, he opened a storefront legal office where he served many in the community, often without compensation. In 1980, he was asked to mount a challenge for the Congressional seat held by an 18-year incumbent, Lionel Van Deerlin. Despite the district having a 2- to-1 Democrat registration, Hunter won the seat in an upset. Coming to Washington, the new Congressman immediately sought a seat on the House Armed Services Committee where he could work on America’s national security needs. Hunter became Chairman of the full committee in 2002. As Chairman, Hunter oversaw a $500 billion de- fense budget and focused his efforts on providing America’s men and women in uniform the necessary resources to win our Nation’s military conflicts and developing modernization initiatives that will move new and more effective technologies into the field of battle. Hunter also has made securing the California-Mexico border a top priority. Congressman Hunter worked tirelessly to ensure that the re- gion is safe for communities on both sides of the border and to put a stop to illegal immigration and drug trafficking. His provision to ex- tend the San Diego Fence for 700 miles across Arizona, New Mexico and Texas was signed into law in 2006. Congressman Hunter’s other legislative priorities included retaining and increasing jobs in the 52nd District and across this Nation, pro- viding tax relief to hard-working families and keeping our promises to America’s veterans.

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REPRESENTATIVE DUNCAN L. HUNTER Member of Congress 1981 - 2008 On America’s Manufacturing Base, January 2007: America’s Arsenal of Democracy is reflected in the thousands of fac- tories, plants and businesses that make domestic products in peace- time, but can be called on to make military equipment in a time of war. Three times in the last century we saved the world for freedom: WWI, WWII and the Cold War. In World War II, our manufacturing base made more than: 100,000 tanks; 2.4. million vehicles; 36 billion yards of cloth; 3 million rifles; 41 billion rounds of ammunition; and 41,000 artillery pieces. The Arsenal of Democracy carried Eisenhower’s forces to Berlin and paved the way for the Marines in the Pacific as they pushed the Japanese back to their mainland. This great arsenal, our industrial base, was important to collapsing the Soviet Empire and the Berlin Wall because it provided the strength in Ronald Reagan’s stand against the forces of evil. On the Goodness of America, January 2007: Millions of Americans help across our nation and across our globe. To our international critics I say: When you had floods the Americans were there. Asking for nothing, taking nothing, only helping. When you had fires and earthquakes and tsunamis, the Americans were there. When you had disease Americans brought medicine, when you were hungry, the Americans brought food. When you were attacked, Ameri- cans left the safety of their homes to defend you. Sometimes the Amer- icans came under their government, but many times they just came be- cause of the goodness of their hearts. America is great because Amer- ica is good.

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THE ARTIST Mark Martensen An admiration for the simple life, old-fashioned values and the spirit of adventure are what ignited Mark Martensen’s interest in painting his vision of the Wild West. Born and raised in San Diego, California, Mark’s appreciation of the old west’s traditions developed artistically at an early age. ‘‘I gave my grandmother everything I painted as a child,’’ he said, ‘‘recently she gave it all back, and I was amazed that even then all I seemed to paint were cowboys and horses.’’ Self-taught as an artist, Mark’s California roots led him first to producing a variety of artwork. Painting professionally since 1986, his highly acclaimed works have pro- gressed from a photo real style to a looser, more painterly style that has captured the attention of many collectors in both the and abroad. At his first juried show, as a virtual unknown, he took both first place and honorable mention. Since that time, Mark has had many one-man shows, participated in many group shows and received numerous awards. His paintings are exhibited all through the south- west and he is currently expanding his territory to include other re- gions. Mark feels his art speaks for itself, and his passion for this pe- riod in American history is exemplified in his work. With imagination, brushstrokes and the molding of clay, he is able to reincarnate the spir- it of another time. Mark enjoys spending time with his wife and best friend Kerry, daughter Shannon and son Ian. With their support and belief in him, he realizes anything is possible.

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P R O G R A M

2118 Rayburn House Office Building, 6:30 P.M., September 15, 2009

MASTER OF CEREMONIES: General Terry Paul INVOCATION: General Randy West REMARKS: The Honorable Trent Franks Member, Committee on Armed Services The Honorable Ike Skelton Chairman, Committee on Armed Services The Honorable John A. Boehner House Republican Leader The Honorable Duncan D. Hunter Member, Committee on Armed Services INTRODUCTION OF THE ARTIST: Mark Martensen by General Terry Paul UNVEILING OF THE PORTRAIT: Mrs. Lynne Hunter and the Honorable Duncan D. Hunter REMARKS: The Honorable Duncan L. Hunter

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Unveiling Ceremony of Portrait of THE HONORABLE DUNCAN L. HUNTER

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, Washington, DC. General PAUL. Ladies and gentlemen, can we have your attention, please? First of all, on behalf of the Hunter family, I want to recognize all those friends who traveled long distances to come here for this cher- ished event, and certainly for the senior officials, fellow Members of Congress, that are here—Mr. Hunter’s friends over the years, some of them. And we have senior officer military and senior civilian officials represented on the Armed Forces and dignitaries, et al. I would like to start by introducing my good friend, General Randy West. He will offer the invocation. He is a fellow Marine, retired at 35 years of service. And he thought about doing a career of it, but he is also a pastor of a Baptist church out in Loudoun County. As you would expect, Marines can do more than one thing. So, Randy, would you offer the invocation to us, please? INVOCATION BY GENERAL RANDY WEST

General WEST. Let us pray. Our most gracious and loving Lord, we thank you this evening for this special event honoring the service of one of your sons to his fam- ily, his Nation and his God. We thank you for such a man as Duncan L. Hunter. We thank you for his 28-plus years of service in the U.S. Congress. We thank you for the wisdom that you granted him to make wise decisions as one of the highest leaders in our great Nation, as a Congressman and as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. We thank you that he had the resolve, the determination and the resolution to stand firm on those decisions and on the values and principles that we all hold dear. We thank you that because of his service, America is stronger and safer; our troops are better prepared, trained and equipped to meet the challenges of the future; our families have a better quality of life; [1] our wounded and disabled are better able to enjoy our parks and na- tional forests like everyone else; our factories and businesses make and sell more things that have the stamp Made in America; and all of us have better places to live, work and play. We also thank you for the strong and supportive wife and children that stood with him, and for his son that will help carry on the values and beliefs that were espoused by his father and grandfather before him. We ask your blessings on them and on their friends, colleagues and family that fill this room this evening. Give us a joyful time to- gether and a safe trip to our homes. And last, Father, we ask your blessings on America’s sons and daugh- ters tonight, that serve the cause of liberty across the face of the globe, many of them in harm’s way. Watch over them, keep them safe. Bring them home to families that love them and eagerly await their return. It is in your holy name that we pray. Amen. General PAUL. Thank you, Randy. I would like to introduce the Congressman from Arizona who want- ed to offer a few remarks, Congressman Trent Franks. Trent’s recogni- tion was that he was the first Member of Congress that endorsed Mr. Hunter’s candidacy for President. I want to go on record of saying 3 weeks later, I was number two. Mr. Franks. REMARKS OF HON. TRENT FRANKS Member, Committee on Armed Services

Mr. FRANKS. I cannot tell you what a sweet privilege it is for me to be here on behalf of Duncan Hunter tonight. I know there is very little I am going to be able to tell any of you that you don’t already know about him. And he has heard a lot of things I have said about him, and I apologize in advance for repeating some of the things. But the first time I saw Duncan Hunter was in the House Caucus. And he got up and was talking about maintaining the strength of America, and he did it in such a way I thought, Wow, that guy reminds me of John Wayne. And I truly, ever since then, have called him the John Wayne of the Congress because he kind of reminded me of that old movie, The Green Berets. Do you remember there at the very end, there was John Wayne there with the little Vietnamese boy and everything had gone wrong for this little boy. He lost everything he loved. But John Wayne says, We are going to take care of you. He said, I don’t know what I am going to do. He said, Don’t worry about it, we are going to take care of you; after all, you are what this war is all about. And I think sometimes our veterans and our heroes, we characterize them because they are so courageous in battle, and there is certainly everything right about that. But let me suggest to you tonight that true

[2] soldiers, like Duncan Hunter, don’t fight because they hate what is in front of them or because they hate the enemy. They fight because they love what is behind them. They fight be- cause they love America and their families and the way of life that all of us are so thankful for. They are willing to give up all of their tomor- rows and all of their todays so that we can have whatever opportunities that freedom presents us to have. And I will have to say to you—and Pete Geren said to me tonight— he is the Secretary of the Army. He said, Duncan Hunter is a soldier’s soldier. He said, there are a lot of reasons I put it that way. But most importantly, Duncan Hunter every day he was in this place, sometimes at night, was staying up figuring out ways to do what he could to make sure that our soldiers in the battlefield were more protected, were more capable, were better armed, better trained. He did everything he could to make sure that they had success in the battlefield. And I know that we will never really realize the ripple effect that a life like Duncan Hunter has. But I am reminded sometimes that we go through life—he went through life, 26 years on the Armed Services Committee, and he runs for President. That is a pretty big deal; there are not too many people who run for President. And he won all the debates, didn’t he? He won every last one of them. He always says, You are losing them, Trent, you are losing them. But I know that I am not. I know you know that this man is a substantive man and he has given his entire life to the cause of human freedom. And, yes, I had the privi- lege of being the first one to endorse him for President, and I would do it again today. And I am reminded that Winston Churchill, he worked very hard and essentially was the one who led us through this dark shadow of the Nazi swastika that was trying to fall across the planet; and he abso- lutely was used of God to save humanity in a significant way. And at the end of all that, the voters threw him out of office. And the media said, Well, now what do you think Mr. Churchill? And he said, Well, you know—and this is a rough quote—he said, You know, the only real guide a man has in this life is his conscience. The only shield to his memory is the rectitude and the sincerity of his own ac- tions. And it is very imprudent to walk through this life without that shield because we are all so often mocked by the failures of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations. But with this shield, knowing we did what we believed was right, no matter how the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor. And I will tell you that this man has left a path of honor everywhere he has gone. And he has a son now that is faithfully following that path, and only eternity will discover the impact of this family. [3] I know that the real backbone of it is his sweet wife; and she never gets the credit, but I know that she is the one that makes it all work. Yes. And finally now I will just say that there are a lot of great things that we talk about. We kind of get used to this life, and we forget the sac- rifices that were paid sometimes so that we can gather in this place. And Duncan Hunter, along with a tremendous chorus of voices behind him, have put their lives on the line for the cause of human freedom. He never talks about being an Army Ranger. He says I never did any- thing too significant. But everyone that puts on that uniform, places themselves between the malevolent and the innocent. I will tell you I truly believe there is nothing more noble on this planet than putting your life on the line for the sake of the innocent; and that more than anything else characterizes Duncan Hunter. And he is a precious friend to all of us. I salute him with all of my heart. And I remind you all that he will always march in the ranks of honor. God bless you all. General PAUL. Ladies and gentlemen, those who currently wear the uniform and serve the day and those that served before, we are blessed that when our Nation changes hands periodically, and leadership, that we are not abandoned, that the welfare and the concern of our Nation and our Armed Forces are still in good hands. And with that in mind, I would say, I am pleased to see that the rela- tionship and the friendship that Chairman Hunter had and the transi- tion and the respect that he had for his relief and now it is still main- tained. I would like to introduce the man from , the current chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Chairman Ike Skel- ton. REMARKS OF HON. IKE SKELTON Chairman, Committee on Armed Services

The CHAIRMAN. I was wondering what happened to my notes for my comments, and Trent Franks took them. Portraits are wonderful tokens of memory, but you kind of have to be careful sometimes. About 20 years ago, Duncan, I had a lady in Kan- sas City, near my hometown of Lexington, call who wanted to do my portrait so she could put it on her brochure. And I was relatively new in Congress, and she thought it would be a good thing to have a Con- gressman’s portrait on her brochure. And being a bit on the egotistical side, I said, Yeah, that is a good idea. So I went up to Kansas City. I sat for her. She took pictures, and weeks later, my staff and I go by to look at the finished portrait; and the best thing I could say when I looked at it in her presence was, It is interesting. She gave it to me, and I gave to the Lexington Historical [4] Society with the understanding they may not show it publicly until I am dead. I trust the artist that you had did not go to the same school of paint- ing that this lady did. What a thrill tonight. What a thrill. Duncan Hunter: lawyer, soldier, Congressman, chairman, but most important, a friend. A few minutes ago when I saw Duncan, he said, We have had a lot of good times together, haven’t we? And we have. What a thrill to work with this gentleman. And, Lynne, he is a gentleman’s gentleman. And I know what a wonderful home that you have; and your sons, he of course speaks of them so fondly. Duncan Hunter is one of a kind. One of the thrills of my life is that he and I walked together in Congress, in the committee, and in friend- ship. Historians don’t really, most of the time, write about the real things that happen in a legislative body such as ours. They talk about the issues and the great debates of the day. But so often it is the asso- ciations, friendship and trust that a Member of Congress brings. Ladies and gentlemen, the young men and young women in our military today and in yesteryear are all the better prepared, trained and safe, no kidding, because of Duncan Hunter. I salute you, Duncan Hunter, for all that you have done. Not just for them, but for our country. You have been an honorable Member of Congress that we can all look up to, and I hope that this portrait will speak for not just decades, but for centuries about your service, your decency, your intelligence, your care for those that defend us. And most of all, I hope it speaks about your honor because, ladies and gentlemen, this is one honorable, wonderful gentleman and this trib- ute is certainly well deserved. God bless. General PAUL. Ladies and gentlemen, our next speaker, who was born in Cincinnati, a place that I share the same birth with, Mr. Boeh- ner, John Boehner, the House Republican leader. Your remarks, sir. REMARKS OF HON. JOHN A. BOEHNER House Republican Leader

Mr. BOEHNER. On behalf of all of you and Duncan’s friends here in the Congress, let me welcome all of our military personnel, both active and retired, generals to the soldiers that are here. We really do wel- come you. And Chairman Skelton and all of my colleagues, thank you for being here. You know, I had the opportunity to work with Duncan for 18 years; and there is nobody in the Congress, nobody in the Congress more concerned about the welfare of our soldiers than Duncan Hunter, no [5] one who paid more attention to making sure that they had what they needed to win the battle they were in and to win the war. And he and Chairman Skelton, I know, were close friends and really did, in fact, work hand in glove together over a very long period of time—something that we don’t see as much of in the Congress today as much as we used to. This ceremony is getting a little serious. Over 18 years there are a lot of stories that come about, and some of you know, I am pretty— I am a neatnik, and I am always working on Members to dress better and get a better tie. And Duncan, you never made it to the Esquire list nor will you ever. But I was very complimentary of Duncan, though, during his Presidential race because he had better suits and he had lost about 40 pounds. But one day—you know, about the first 15 years I was here, I didn’t have a car. So I was always bumming a ride here and bumming a ride there. So we were at some charity golf event, and I needed a ride back to the Capitol, and Duncan offered me a ride. So I got in this jalopy—and I am overstating it. Mr. DUNCAN L. HUNTER. I paid $600 for that. Mr. BOEHNER. As we are flying down the road, all I saw was the high- way underneath my feet. It is one thing to have an old car and it is another thing to be cheap. Or I could tell you about the time we had the Republican retreat up at Hershey, Pennsylvania, and so Duncan dragged Lynne out to some woodmaker or cabinetmaker, somewhere nearby in Lancaster. Someone in the Amish was making cabinets, and Duncan found this great deal on these cabinets that were made for somebody else, but they cancelled the order; and he thought these—he could make these cabinets work for his cabin over in West Virginia. The next thing I know, Duncan is renting a truck and a trailer to haul these cheap cabi- nets that he got, this great deal that he got, off to his cabin. Listen, one of the great things about serving in the Congress is that while we have a great opportunity to kind of put our fingerprints on the direction of our country, it really is a great honor to serve. But probably the most important thing that we ought to take away from here are the opportunities we have to work with other people and to meet people we would never have met otherwise. I can tell you what: Duncan Hunter is one of those people that every Member respects—you may disagree with him, but every Member re- spects. Because at the end of the day, Duncan always said it the way it was, and he did it his way. And, Duncan, we are all the better off for it. Thanks for being here. Lynne, keep up the good work.

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General PAUL. Mark Martensen, where is Mark? Mark, come up here just a minute. I want to introduce the prize artist of the event, Mark Martensen. Mark’s wife is here and his two children. Let’s see, we have Kerry, Shannon and Ian. Thank you for coming. You have been painting since 1984, 1986—— Mr. MARTENSEN. Professionally, yes. General PAUL [continuing]. And never were taught anything, self- taught? That is how he got into Congress. He kind of picked it up along the way, yeah. So how long did it take you to paint this portrait, a couple of days? Mr. MARTENSEN. Well, he thinks it took a couple of days. General PAUL. The final one. I mean, after you did the three that he didn’t like? Mr. MARTENSEN. The one with the headdress, yeah. You know what? I couldn’t pinpoint it. I have to tell you what, though. I have to thank my wife and my kids, honestly, for putting up with me. I was painting until the strangest hours of the night—early morning, waking up grumpy, getting right back in, making my coffee, growing a beard. It was a journey. But I appreciate them putting up with me. And I thank you for that. General PAUL. I have a Mark Martensen in my home, too. And I asked somebody one time, I said, What is an artist’s proof? They said, That is one that they had left over that they couldn’t sell. No. Thank you so much for what you have done. Thank you. Mr. MARTENSEN. Thank you. General PAUL. Ms. Lynne. Mrs. HUNTER. Well—— Mr. DUNCAN L. HUNTER. Remember, we have to go home together. UNVEILING OF THE PORTRAIT BY MRS. LYNNE HUNTER AND HON. DUNCAN D. HUNTER

Mrs. HUNTER. I know that. No, I don’t have to remember that. You do. Okay, anyway, as you all—there are a lot of people here that we have known for years. I don’t think Duncan has known a stranger, both sides of the aisle; he works with everybody on all the issues. And I have to say that he truly is a humble and a very noble person. And his humility almost did not let me make him do this. But as I said, I made him do this portrait because he has children and grand- children; and I felt that it was something that we could give them as parents and grandparents. And everybody that has talked about Duncan has pretty much put him in a wrapper, what they have said about him, because it is true. [7] We have been married 30—I don’t know, 36 years, I think. I don’t know. I always have to stop and think. But he had just gotten back from Vietnam, and the first thing I made him do was grow his hair out. But it is true, you can’t clean up Mr. Hunter. He did clean up pretty good for the Presidential race. But Duncan is Duncan all the way through and through, and he is never going to change. And he is what he says he is, and he stands for the goodness of this country. God, fam- ily and country is where he stands. And I am really very proud to have my son in Congress now. You know, as a mother and a father, what you—what your children become is pretty much what you are because you make them what they are, you try to teach them, you try to guide them. And I think we have done a pretty good job. Sam left last night for . He is in the Army. He decided to follow his dad’s steps. Mr. DUNCAN L. HUNTER. A good man. Mrs. HUNTER. Duncan, of course, was in the Marine Corps and he did a great job in the Marine Corps. I always thought a forward ob- server was somebody that looked way back there forward and observed what was going on. When he got home from the Marines, I learned what a forward observer really did. But you can tell what kind of a person you are by what you do in this life. And I have to say I am—I don’t say it much, but I am going to say it today, I am very proud of Duncan and what he has done for this country, for the military, to keep this country safe and for standing for God and his true belief and what this Lord is going to bestow on this Nation. And so I would like for my son, Duncan, to come up here, because I want him to help me unveil the portrait. And, you know, Hunters do a little—things a little different. I don’t know if you know that or not. If you know Duncan, you know they do. But I want Duncan to help me unveil his dad’s portrait. And I have to hand it to Mark Martensen. He really did capture Duncan in his entirety. So you can take that any way you want. So we will go from there, Mark. Mr. DUNCAN L. HUNTER. Duncan, aren’t you going to make a speech about me? Mr. DUNCAN D. HUNTER. After we unveil. [Whereupon, the portrait was unveiled.] General PAUL. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we will do the best part of the story now. We will let you hear from our future, the new Dun- can Hunter.

[8] I want to tell you a quick story about Duncan, Sr. During the Presi- dential campaign, he called me one day; and he says, I would like you to do me a favor, a little favor. Okay, I will do a little favor. What is it? He said, Would you be willing to go down to for me and give some speeches, because I am being pulled into Nevada and I cannot be at both places. You want me to represent you in a Presidential debate? Yes. Okay. When are we going to do this? Tomorrow. Okay, tomorrow. Do you have any script or speech that I could prob- ably look over on the drive down? No, I don’t really have anything. You are pretty familiar with my posi- tion on things; just go with that. So if you look, you can kind of see a little dip in his numbers about then. Mr. DUNCAN L. HUNTER. It was tough to go much lower. General PAUL. And I struggled a little bit with the value added tax. But you had a very good race. His son came to me one day many years ago, right after 9/11 and he said, General Paul, I want to join the Marine Corps, be a Marine officer. I said, Well, that is a fine undertaking. How old are you? Twenty-one, 22. Something like that. College graduate. Does your dad know about this? Yeah. He is okay with it. Does your mom know about it? She will be okay with it. This wasn’t too hard. He had a fine background, experience, et cetera, not like his father that struggled with an Army career. But the young Duncan Duane was a fine officer that when our country needed his service, he was there for it without any prodding, without any- thing—it was the right thing to do. And it shows the leadership, I think—as Ms. Lynne had mentioned—of the family of their other be- loved son, Sam, who just marched off to the sound of the guns this last weekend. We know those sacrifices. I know Duncan has comforted me in life. We have had some great times, some good times. But in serious times, when I lost my brother on 9/11, it was Duncan that was there, that was holding my hand and saying the right things in that. And so they have been close to me. But, Duncan Duane, we expect great things out of you.

[9] REMARKS OF HON. DUNCAN D. HUNTER

Member, Committee on Armed Services

Mr. DUNCAN D. HUNTER. Good luck with that, Terry. And thanks to the great General Paul, a great mentor, a great Ma- rine and a pretty good lobbyist now, I think. And I want to say, Mom told me to tell you guys one thing. There are a lot of folks here that have different business backgrounds. Dad is looking for a job. His re- sume is outside. But you have to promise to take him every month for at least 2 weeks back out here to D.C., so she has some time on her own. You are welcome, Mom. Somebody was asking how long dad sat for this portrait. If you look at it, he looks about 20 years younger. It was actually me sitting for this. They just put some wrinkles on, and that is why he looks so good. That was probably the best joke I ever heard my mom tell, got all of him ‘‘in his entirety.’’ How many canvasses did Mark have to use for that? Did you have to use two, Mark? There were so many nice things said about Dad—it was during—I was on Fox News about a month and a half ago. And it was the big Fox News, and I am on with somebody talking. And I come on and he goes, Well, you don’t look like Duncan Hunter. I said, I am Duncan Hunter; try a little Botox and exercise, and you can do this too. So about a half an hour after that was on, I get a phone call from my consultant back in San Diego. They say, Someone just filed papers against you. I think it is your father. And I just want to thank all the great servicemen and -women who are here tonight. I think there are more Marines here than there are soldiers, sailors or airmen, which is pretty telling. We like to say, My dad’s dad, Bob, was a Marine in World War II. Dad joined the Army, I went Marine Corps. So the standing joke is, Talent skips a generation. But now that my little brother just joined the Army—he is a grunt in a Stryker brigade, and he is over there, so we are going to be pray- ing for him. Let me just tell you in all seriousness—I will keep this really short— there is no greater man in my life, no better leader who truly holds the principles of what we stand for as a country. And as was said ear- lier, God, family, country, honor, duty, commitment, however you want to say it, dad’s priorities were always in the right place. And those of us that are Members here—I am still a brand-new freshman. Those of you who have been here for a while, you are always gone from your families, you are out here working hard. It is very difficult sometimes. [10] And that was hard for us kids growing up, to understand why Dad was gone all the time. But we understand now because we live in a more dangerous world in some ways after 9/11, but also in safer ways because we have people like Chairman Skelton and Chairman Hunter here that came back from 9/11 and tried to recover. And we have— and we are stronger because of it. And it is just great—and difficult in some ways—to have somebody as great and steadfast and as principled as my dad. And I come back from here and there are folks saying, This is probably, from what I have heard, the most partisan Congress in people’s recent memory. And there is some bitterness here that has not been here in previous Congresses. And I come home and I say, Everybody—and I mean every- body; people from the exact opposite political spectrum as me—will walk up to me and say, Your father was a great man; I truly respected him. And that really means something to me, because you don’t see a whole lot of that anymore. And I came home and asked Dad who he was cavorting with out here, because he has all of these folks paying him great compliments. He was truly kind of the old gentleman here in Congress, with friends all over, very principled; and there was no other man that I would rath- er follow into battle than my father. Dad, thank you for everything. Great Congressman, great father, great husband and a great chairman. And a wonderful wife, Mom.

REMARKS OF HON. DUNCAN L. HUNTER

Mr. DUNCAN L. HUNTER. You know, I talked to my other son—favor- ite—just a couple of hours ago. Sam is leaving—Lynne and I came back from Fort Lewis, Washington. We went up to drive the family goods down while Sam deployed to Iraq. And Teresa, his wonderful wife, flew back with the two granddaughters. So I am the driver. I was going to drive everything down and then fly out from San Diego. But he kept—his delayed time kept getting pushed back. So we ended up flying from Seattle. So I have a U-Haul truck and a Suburban car that Lynne thinks was not a good deal, but I think it was a great deal. But I pulled into the gas station to gas it up for the trip down, and it wouldn’t start. It was another one of my great deals. But we have that thing waiting for us. It is a wonderful life. And, in fact, my daughter-in-law, Teresa, called me up the other day. And they just bought a little ranch in San Diego. And she said, You have to go out and meet the trashman because he is bringing this huge dumpster to clean the new ranch up, and you have to be there at 7:00. And I said—I was looking at the invite and the time to come down here for the unveiling. I said, Teresa, I was the chairman of the Armed

[11] Services Committee. She said, You can’t be a minute late, you have to be there at 7:00; the trashman does not like to wait. So I am comfortable in my new role, and most of my role has been air conditioned. It has been a lot of fun. It has been a great privilege. I have got to thank you, Trent, for doing that wonderful job. And, Ike, thank you, my friend. Thank you to Terry Paul. Where is Terry at? You did make a re- sounding speech. Did Terry leave for another talk already? Oh, he is still here. You did make a wonderful speech for me. What a great friend. And you did teach Duncan how to navigate. I have got to tell you one story about Duncan. He came in from the officer’s basic course. And his first time out, trying to find his objective at night in the forest in Quantico with a compass, he couldn’t find it. I said, Duncan, you just keep it right in front of you and just keep your eyes right on that baby, and you will find your objective. He said, Dad, it is tough to read the compass when you are under water. And Terry taught him how to read a compass at night. And, Terry, thank you for guiding him and taking him along the straight and nar- row. I want to thank my wife, a wonderful lady who did the most impor- tant thing that you can do in this world, which is to give character to your children. And she gave that character to Duncan and to Sam. And for that, I am always grateful. And this has been a great occasion be- cause she has been forced to say a lot of really neat things about me, and it is fun. I have got to tell you, this is a lady who can drive a tractor or meet the queen. She would rather drive the tractor. And many times—taking Frank Wolf’s old advice, my great old friend who said, You have got to spend time with your family. Many times she said, We are not going to the White House, we are not going to ; we are going to the soccer game, we are going to go out and do stuff with the kids. And she has imbued that ethic with Duncan and Sam, and that is impor- tant. To all my great friends who are here, my great colleagues, thank you for being good friends, good supporters; and for letting me work with you, all my colleagues who have done such remarkable things. And we have won the war in Iraq. To all my colleagues on the Armed Services Committee, Democrat and Republican, we won that war. And I tell that to every man and woman who wears the uniform, who served there, because they deserve to be credited with their ac- complishment. The violence is down 90 percent; the government is going to hold. The government is going to hold. We didn’t promise we would replicate Iowa. We have done a marvelous thing under in- credibly difficult circumstances. And that shows young people—it is [12] due to those young people that wear that uniform and follow that great flag. I was with Sam in the early morning. He was scheduled to depart about 15 times from Fort Lewis, usually at 4:00 in the morning in the last couple of days. And I was out there with him in the early morning at the 4th Stryker brigade, and as I walked out, I could just make out some words on the steps that they were walking down as they were moving out to deploy. And the first words said ‘‘selfless service.’’ Self- less service. The second word was ‘‘honor,’’ and the last words were ‘‘personal courage.’’ And those young people have given—have shown us the personal courage that amazed our enemies and, I think, left our allies in awe, because a lot of the allies don’t have those great at- tributes that the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States have. And, my colleagues, you have done wonderful things, all of you, to make sure that those great American heroes who wear that uniform have all the right equipment, who have got different challenges in Af- ghanistan. We have got to solve that problem of the Pakistan strip, the emerging threat with IEDs and the difficulty of splitting that popu- lation away from the Taliban. We are going to do it. We are going to do it with a lot of old hands, those great guys who are battalion commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last 5, 6, 7 years, who go back, try something; if it doesn’t work, they adapt. And they are persistent and they win and they prevail. So this country is going to be a great country as long as we have wonderful people like that, and there are a lot of them in this room. I want to thank all of them. I just want to thank all the great friends who are here, all the folks that helped me in the campaign. My Aunt Charlene is here from Texas. I will never forget when the Dallas Morning News said, when we were going to the State convention in Texas—the only one which I won in the straw poll—and they said, Hunter’s campaign is so under- funded he has to stay with relatives while he is in Dallas. That is—I won that straw poll, 2 to 1; the closest guy was Fred Thompson. And they had a big press conference afterwards, and I looked right at that reporter and I said, That was outrageous that you said, I am so poor I have to live with relatives and tell Aunt Charlene I will be home late for dinner. And I was. We had a wonderful time. But you have got a lot of challenges ahead of you, and I know I have kept all of you too long. I look forward to saying hello to everybody. I just finish by saying this: When Lynne and I first arrived—— Mrs. HUNTER. I don’t think it sunk into him yet that he is not a Con- gressman anymore. He keeps on going. Mr. DUNCAN L. HUNTER. I have got to finish, Lynne. I have to finish, Lynne. [13] This is—when we came here in 1980, that was 28 years ago. Ronald Reagan was being sworn in on the front steps of the Capitol, and I walked up. Ike, you were there; I think you came in 2 years earlier. Lots of my great colleagues here were there. And the President talked about renewing this country. And as he closed that speech, the Inaugural Address—and that is why we have the Reagan there, home-ported in good old San Diego. I know Ike is going to make sure it stays there. Right, Ike? He was on the west steps, and he pointed straight out to the west. And he said, There is the Washington Monument, dedicated to the Fa- ther of Our Country; and beyond that, the Lincoln Memorial, dedi- cated to the man who saved the Union; and to the Southeast, the Jef- ferson Memorial, dedicated to the man who put those great words in our founding documents. But, Ronald Reagan said, beyond all of those monuments are thou- sands of monuments dedicated to Americans who gave that same full measure of devotion. And that is Arlington Cemetery. And he said, Under one of those monuments lies a man named Martin Treptow, who left his little barbershop in 1917; and he went to France to fight with the Rainbow Division, and he was killed after he had been in country about 3 weeks. And when his friends found his body, they found that he had kept a diary. And the last thing that he wrote in this diary was, I have to fight this war as if the success or failure of America depends on me alone. And that is a challenge that Ronald Reagan gave us in 1980. And for every one of us who was involved and all my colleagues who are still here, fighting this fight and working hard to make sure that our troops are prepared, that is the challenge that we have, to keep our security in this increasingly dangerous world. Thank you so much for what you are doing. Thanks to my son, Dun- can, for the great words and all my colleagues who have spoken. And thanks for this wonderful honor. It is better than I deserve. Most of my career has been air conditioned. But it is kind of nice. And, you know, it is just good to be here with Lynne one last time in Washington, D.C. Thanks so much. God bless you. [Whereupon, at 7:17 p.m., the presentation was concluded.]

[14] HOUSE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS IKE SKELTON, Missouri, Chairman , South Carolina HOWARD P. ‘‘BUCK’’ MCKEON, California SOLOMON P. ORTIZ, Texas ROSCOE G. BARTLETT, Maryland GENE TAYLOR, Mississippi , Texas NEIL ABERCROMBIE, Hawaii WALTER B. JONES, North Carolina SILVESTRE REYES, Texas W. , Missouri VIC SNYDER, Arkansas J. RANDY FORBES, Virginia , Washington JEFF MILLER, Florida LORETTA SANCHEZ, California JOE WILSON, South Carolina MIKE MCINTYRE, North Carolina FRANK A. LOBIONDO, New Jersey ROBERT A. BRADY, Pennsylvania ROB BISHOP, Utah ROBERT ANDREWS, New Jersey MICHAEL TURNER, Ohio SUSAN A. DAVIS, California JOHN KLINE, JAMES R. LANGEVIN, Rhode Island MIKE ROGERS, Alabama RICK LARSEN, Washington TRENT FRANKS, Arizona JIM COOPER, Tennessee BILL SHUSTER, Pennsylvania JIM MARSHALL, Georgia CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS, Washington MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO, Guam K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas BRAD ELLSWORTH, Indiana DOUG LAMBORN, Colorado PATRICK J. MURPHY, Pennsylvania ROB WITTMAN, Virginia HANK JOHNSON, Georgia MARY FALLIN, Oklahoma CAROL SHEA-PORTER, New Hampshire DUNCAN HUNTER, California JOE COURTNEY, Connecticut JOHN C. FLEMING, Louisiana DAVID LOEBSACK, Iowa MIKE COFFMAN, Colorado JOE SESTAK, Pennsylvania THOMAS J. ROONEY, Florida GABRIELLE GIFFORDS, Arizona TODD RUSSELL PLATTS, Pennsylvania NIKI TSONGAS, Massachusetts GLENN NYE, Virginia CHELLIE PINGREE, Maine LARRY KISSELL, North Carolina MARTIN HEINRICH, New Mexico FRANK M. KRATOVIL, Jr., Maryland ERIC J.J. MASSA, BOBBY BRIGHT, Alabama SCOTT MURPHY, New York DAN BOREN, Oklahoma

ERIN C. CONATON, Staff Director

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